Twentieth Century Fox should be mighty proud of their animation department.

With the newly added category of Best Animated Film for the Academy Awards, Fox is staking its claim for the top prize when the 2002 Awards are announced a year from now.

Fox has now moved into the category of high quality computer generated animation, a club that only had Pixar/Disney and Dreamworks as its members.

With its concept of making a movie fun for kids and smart enough for adults "Ice Age" joins this past years "Monsters Inc." and "Shrek" as the next big thing.

Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo and Jack Black voice some of the fun loving creatures who have come across a human baby and decide to go against the grain and the way all other animals are going and try to redeliver the baby to where it needs to be.

My kids who are 6 and 3 really enjoyed this movie, they had a lot of fun and never got bored. Although some of the jokes flew right over them, adults caught them as they went zinging by.

It makes me happy to know that with the technology moving forward with the use of computers, the people working those computers are being creative on the writing end of things and creating good solid characters and they all know with the great success of recent animated films they have to earn their dough.

"Ice Age" will do monster business and will probably get some more of my money as my kids want to see it again.